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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does the creature invite Hammond to play?

2. What happens to Copperfield and his whole team?

3. What do the survivors realize the water is?

4. Where does it direct them to go?

5. Who tells Timothy Flyte what is going on in Snowfield?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Bryce and Jenny discouraged when Copperfield arrives?

2. How does the creature manage to get to Gordy on a personal level?

3. What kind of people make up the team that Copperfield brings with him?

4. What lesson does the entity feel compelled to re-administer after Copperfield and his team arrive?

5. What does Copperfield's approach to the whole situation cost him?

6. What does scientist Sara Yamaguchi report to Bryce and Jenny after their investigation?

7. What does Flyte share with the six remaining survivors when he gets to Snowfield?

8. What is the most likely reason that Gordy was the next one who was taken, and why was it done in such a public and painful manner?

9. What is so unusual about the conditions at the Sheffield home that Frank and Gordy ask Bryce to come and look?

10. What does Fletcher Kale finally realize as he is being taken down to court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How long does it take before reinforcements arrive? What is immediately disappointing to both Bryce and Jennifer about these reinforcements? How is the reality of their arrival inconsistent with the anticipation of their arrival and purpose? What does this rescue group consist of, and what is their mandated purpose? What are the immediate precautions taken to ensure their safety? Who is the first of the group to realize the unimportance of this precaution?

Essay Topic 2

What is consistent about most of the bodies that are found in Snowfield? How do they defy any normal logic that as a doctor, Jennifer might apply? What is immediately noticeable about most of these bodies? Which ones are different in condition in the town and where are they found? How are those three people killed? Why is it likely that the Liebermann's bodies are never found? How is that consistent with the rest of the missing townspeople?

Essay Topic 3

What names does the Ancient Enemy give itself? How does it communicate these names to the group? How does the Ancient Enemy view itself, and what is the direct conflict this creates with its opinion of God and religion in general? What does the Ancient Enemy tell Bryce about his family, and how is it likely to have obtained this personal information about him? Who is the group is deeply affected by the religious connotations involved?

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